Country size comparison
compared to
Austria is about 2.3 times smaller than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, making Austria 42.67% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (8.1 million more people live in Austria).
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